Heavy Kaffe I/O at startup

[Archie Cobbs]

Archie Cobbs writes:
> Godmar Back writes:
> > > In other words, how does stdio differ from "a simple stdio-like
> > > buffer scheme" in the sense of thread safety?
> > 
> > fread calls read(2) directly.
> > 
> > The "read" you see in jar.c is actually a #define Kaffe_syscall.read(), 
> > which calls jthreadedRead(), blocking the thread (and not the whole process)
> > if the I/O can't succeed.

Too bad more systems don't have fropen(3) like FreeBSD does...
that would be the perfect solution. Might even be worth an #ifdef.

I wonder what other systems support it? Anything BSD 4.4 based I guess..

-Archie

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